Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US

• Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. The school is funded already through taxpayers. The fact that “the children are working to fund the school” is an acceptable line of logic is already dystopian.

  2. Traditionally, children do fundraisers to fund extracurricular activities, like a field trip. If the school is taking that money to add to their budget, that’s crossing the line into exploiting kids’ labor for money.

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  • Enk1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1. The school is funded already through taxpayers.

    Where do you live that public schools are properly funded by taxes? American schools are embarrassingly underfunded, and teachers are tragically underpaid and typically have to spend their own money to buy supplies for their students.

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    • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The fact that public schools used to be properly funded by taxes and aren’t any longer is part of the dystopia. Do you think I’m defending the current system?

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    • rosymind@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      usafacts.org/topics/education/

      I was surprised to find out how much the U.S. actually does spend on education, given how shitty it is. Idk where the money is going, but it’s definitely funded

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      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not sure if I’m reading the data wrong or what, but that usafacts.org says 35% of people 25 or older have at least a bachelors degree. When I checked the census data, it says only 27.4% have that…

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    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The US spends the second most per student in the world.

      weforum.org/…/education-spending-highest-school-b…

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Part of this comes from the fact that most public schools are funded from local property taxes, so naturally wealthier residents have better public schools due to better funding as they naturally pay more in taxes

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      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Imagine if they spent anything on teachers

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